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Gertie (center) with Millie Maud Smith and sporting artist Frank Voss in Saratoga Springs, New York, where Gertie’s family raced thoroughbredsMedway Plantation circa 1940; her vehicle door read “Dr. and Mrs. C. Weeks” because she was briefly married to Dr. Carnes Weeks.An undated photo shows Gertie with another museum trophyGertie leading a trek to the kingdom of Rei Boube during her 1952 National Geographic expedition to Africain Ethiopia circa-1928 with her future husband Sidney (to her right), his brother Morris (far right), and scientist Donald Carter (left)—the antlers may be those of mountain nyalaGertie (center) on her first safari in Kenya in 1927

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